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The wide-ranging and often baffling battle between Nat Rothschild and the board of Bumi plc has turned to university qualifications.

Mr Rothschild has repeatedly called for the resignation of Bumi’s chief executive as part of a campaign to revive the struggling coalminer, which he part-owns. Yesterday he claimed to have scored a killer blow.

“Nick von Schirnding has misled both the company and shareholders over academic qualifications and must now resign,” he said.

He was responding to a statement by Bumi’s board, which said Mr von Schirnding had been sponsored by his then employer to attend the University of Witwatersrand